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Enchanting love letter to the first hippy of country, Mr Willie Nelson

The E Street Band take biggest US sports event down in four songs

Something of an adventure getting into work today, and I appear to be alone at Uncut for the moment. Helping me on the yomp through the snow, however, were a couple of quietly magical records on Time-Lag that I’ve got hold of recently.

This morning's sad news of John Martyn's death reminded me of a particularly colourful encounter I had with him, back in what they call the day, which I wrote about in my regular Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before column in Uncut in July 2004 and re-print below. Adios, John.

Billy Powell was 56

Genius violinist embraces his inner folkie

Final trawl of the vaults turns up a double CD’s worth of lost sounds by the Scottish folk starsailors

Twin EPs on one disc from the vagabond trumpeter, exploring Mexican brass and lofi synthpop

The full transcript from this month's Uncut cover feature

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